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Gardening and farming in rural north Idaho has many joys and some challenges-- Zone 4 climate, plant predators/ visitors up to and including moose; sudden weather extremes (we get maritime weather off the Pacific and continental weather down from Alberta & BC). Specializing in herbs and fragrant plants led first to a keen interest in cooking with herbs, and then to soapmaking. Any one day's work might see fence fixing, pruning, soapmaking, gathering botanicals, oohing at the elk herd parading past.

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February 24, 2010

...the smell of the foliage, that is. Transplanting yesterday evening I noticed the different scents of the different varieties of heirloom tomatoes I have for spring--the Striped Roman paste variety being much 'greener' and fruitier smelling, even, than the Yellow Brandywine, and the mystery Japanese tomato more of the musky scent I associate with tomatoes, and then it hit me... I was smiling. Just because of the fragrances of the leaves! They smelled like spring and the garden and life. It has been the longest winter of my life, and it is good to be able to think about spring again.

To transplant today: lavenders, asparagus, more lavenders, pansies, species delphiniums....